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Signed photograph of Roosevelt Toston, 1974
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Gertrude and Roosevelt Toston Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component
Photograph of the home of Roosevelt Toston's grandmother in Epps, Louisiana, 1987
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of the home of Roosevelt Toston's grandmother in Epps, Louisiana. Toston's aunt Annie Lou Thomson stands in the doorway.
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Transcript of interview with Roosevelt Toston by Claytee D. White, July 11, 2006
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Archival Collection
Description
Interview with Roosevelt Toston conducted by Claytee D. White on July 11, 2006. Toston grew up in Epps, Louisiana, and came to Las Vegas in the 1950s as a teenager. He describes his experience at Las Vegas High School and the first jobs he held at the Fremont Hotel and the Nevada Test Site. Toston honed his skills at Dana McKay's School of Business, Bell Telephone of Nevada, and in the military. A correspondence course in broadcasting led to jobs at television stations 3 and 8, and ultimately to a position with the Convention Authority in the area of tourism marketing.
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Transcript of an interview with Gertrude Toston by Claytee D. White on July 21, 2006
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Archival Collection
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Gertrude Toston moved to Las Vegas in 1960. She worked for Western Airlines for 27 years, then earned Masters in Education.
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Transcript of interview with Roosevelt Toston by Chanelle Pickens, October 19, 2013
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Archival Collection
Description
Interview transcript with Roosevelt Toston by Chanelle Pickens, October 19, 2013. This interview focuses primarily on Roosevelt's career in broadcast journalism in the Las Vegas market and then at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter-cameraman, 1973
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter/cameraman.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter/cameraman, 1973
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter/cameraman.
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Photograph of Mya Reyes, Rose McKinney-James, Shelley Berkley, and Roosevelt Toston, undated
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Rose McKinney-James, Mya Reyes, Shelley Berkley, and Roosevelt Toston.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston's childhood home in Epps, Louisianna, no date
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of the exterior of the home in Epps, Louisiana where Roosevelt Toston grew up.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston's aunt, Annie Markham, circa 1958
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston's "surrogate mother," Annie Markham. She was known as Aunt Babe, and was Roosevelt's father's sister.
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